Weekday News Wrap, Tuesday, August 21, 2012

21 Aug Weekday News Wrap, Tuesday, August 21, 2012

• As UN monitors left Syria, fighting progressed to suburbs of Damascus.
• US president Barack Obama has said that if Syria’s government were to use chemical weapons, the US would be forced to act.
• German politicians have said that they will give no leeway to Greece regarding financial reform.
• Israel has positioned an Iron Dome, a rocket interceptor and destroyer, on the Egyptian border following two rocket attacks on the city of Eilat.
• The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism says that the US government must allow investigation into drone strikes.
• The ICC has rejected Laurent Gbagbo’s claims that the Court does not have jurisdiction to try him.
• Reuters offers insight into how Julian Assange is living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Meanwhile, there has been some furore in the UK over the naming of one of the Swedish women involved in the sexual allegations against Assange on TV.
• Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has passed away after being treated for illness abroad.
• The US has welcomed Myanmar’s decision to abolish pre-publication censorship which required publications to be assessed by the censorship board before going to press.
• China has threatened with unspecified sanctions if the US does not cut government support to six renewable energy schemes.

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